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...people just say, `I should have gone to Stanford or UCLA,'" says Lilia Fernandez '95, the president of Raza, Harvard's Mexican-American student group...
...daughter as her dependent, while the family home was placed in an aunt's name. "They're hurting people who really need the money," says Moroak. "I see people who are on financial aid driving around in their brand-new Mercedes," protests Juan Abenojar, a fifth-year student at UCLA. "What is going on here...
...possible? An analysis by UCLA scientists points out that while the poles are bathed in scorching sunlight, the light hits at such a shallow angle that the floors of some craters are permanently in shadow. With no atmosphere to move heat around, the temperature in these spots is far below zero. Any ice that condensed as frost in the craters billions of years ago when water boiled on the planet's surface as it formed would still be around today -- and evidently...
Midway through his first season that feeling is undiminished, and it has spread into academic nooks where enthusiasm for football has rarely flourished. Unexpected back-to-back victories over Notre Dame and UCLA propelled Walsh's charges into a national ranking in the top 10 for the first time in 22 years; despite a subsequent loss to Arizona, Walsh's return to Stanford and his application of complex pro strategies to college ball have revived discussion of whether a mere football coach could actually qualify for the untenured title of genius...
...diversity." A study of UC Berkeley's admission procedures, for example, revealed that in 1989, Berkeley turned down more than 2500 white and Asian applicants with straight-A averages, while virtually accepting every Black applicant with a GPA of a B or higher. A university admission report from UCLA in 1987 revealed that Asian applicants had a 41 percent acceptance rate to the university, compared to 85 percent for Hispanics and 73 percent for Blacks...